If you can buy a $44B company on a whim, then what you hold is indistinguishable from cash.

Can someome enlighten me: What's the point of “running eBPF scripts in userspace”? Isn't being run in kernel space the whole point of eBPF in the first place?

The point of the comment you're responding to is that shortage of affordable housing is ubiquitous, and you can't blame rent control on that in most places (which don't have rent control in the first place).

I don't think rent control is the most efficient solution to the problem, but believing it's a greater problem than the status quo is delusional. The status quo suck, and it mostly sucks because over the past 30 years housing policies in the West have been driven by the belief that markets dynamics are a good way to manage housing.

Nobody has ever found a better way to manage housing than the free market.

In the past 30 years, the government has never been more involved in zoning and regulation of housing.

> Nobody has ever found a better way to manage housing than the free market.

That's just a religious belief of yours. And it's especially off the mark on the “free” part: you can't have a free market for housing, ever, because barriers to entry are always going to be high (and sometimes impossibly high for geometric reasons; there's just so much coastline for instance), and housing is very much not a commodity.

On the flip side, mixed systems in places in most of Europe for several decades after WWII and they were immensely successful. Housing was way more affordable and available back then despite fast growing population and rapidly evolving housing standards that forced owners to constantly invest in their properties to upgrade them.

Yes, but not just “immigration”, but open borders with the EU: most immigrants in Switzerland are EU citizens, and it fits in a broader framework of Swiss-European agreement, capping population would almost certainly imply withdrawal from this framework.

That sounds like nonsense, they don't even speak the same language in Brasil and Paraguay …

In a beauty contest, being right alone against everyone else just makes you lose.

Markets can remain irrational much longer than you can remain solvent.

> There's no reason to believe that construction companies would accept jobs at prices below the cost of materials and labor.

Who's talking about cost of material and labor though?

Not only construction companies make good money, but the price of the land is a significant part of housing cost. And this price is entirely driven by the value of the real estate that will sit on it.

For token generation, yes: because current-gen LLMs are autoregressive you need to add the inter-node latency for every since token.

For prompt processing it would work though, and it could for diffusion LLMs as well.

> A camera recording is neither smart nor useful IMO.

It's very useful for big brother Zuckerberg though.

> Turns out Frank Herbert was an optimist, and we're literally pinning our survival on robots turning out to naturally have impractically short attention spans.

Some people are working as hard as they can to increase it though.